[ARC5] Q-5er

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 6 Mar 2011 at 13:35, Dennis Monticelli wrote:

> 
> I'd like to add that the ARC-5 Q5'er solution to the poor
> selectivity of affordable post-war sets allowed for some interesting
> bandwidth options. The three slugs in the 85KHz IF adjust the coupling
> and therefore the bandwidth. Users could play with the three stages to
> get the results they wanted. Because the ARC-5 made for a very
> sensitive 2nd IF, the user had to couple very lightly to the tunable
> receiver. 

Absolutely correct. 

In most cases, the detector and BFO injection in the ARC-5s were far 
superior to the cheaper post-war sets too.

Ken W7EKB